Beta Quotes

Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.